Care Navigator
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Job summary
Are you ready to take the next step in your career in mental health while living on a beautiful island? We are inviting a Band 4 Care Navigator to join our Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team, where collaborative, individualised care is at the heart of what we do.
Located on the stunning Isle of Wight, this role offers more than just professional fulfilment. As a close-knit island community, the Isle of Wight provides an excellent quality of life for families and individuals alike. With its unspoiled beaches, scenic countryside, and year-round family-friendly activities, it's the perfect place to build both your career and personal life. From exploring historic sites to enjoying water sports or leisurely walks, you'll find something for everyone.
About the Role
The post holder, in collaboration with the Team, will work closely with the inpatient services, having face to face contact with service users to understand their social circumstances and any potential barriers to discharge when they are well enough to be discharged from hospital.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 4 Care Navigator, you will:
Support service users as experts in their own care, promoting the principles of recovery, choice and personalisation, which value and empower them.
Work in collaboration with other parts of the pathway such as the wards & community teams to help identify timely packages of care, geared to the needs of the service user.
Work in a manner which is helpful to the service user and the referrer, based on principles of recovery, personalisation and choice.
Work with stakeholders and care teams to enable access to relevant interventions / support and self-management as part of the Care Navigator role.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Details
Date posted
08 December 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£24,785 to £30,162 a year Based on full time hours
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
348-IOW-9833
Job locations
Sevenacres
Parkhurst Road
Newport
Isle of Wight
PO30 5TG
Employer details
Employer name
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Sevenacres
Parkhurst Road
Newport
Isle of Wight
PO30 5TG
Employer's website
https://hiowhealthcare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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